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Supreme Court appears likely to back voter ID law
CNN Washington Bureau ^ | January 9, 2008 | Bill Mears

Posted on 01/09/2008 8:22:32 PM PST by My_Name_is_a_Number

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A conservative majority of the Supreme Court appeared ready Wednesday to support an Indiana law requiring voters to show photo identification, despite concerns that it could deprive thousands of people of their right to vote. The Supreme Court is reviewing an Indiana law that requires voters to show a photo ID. At issue is whether state laws designed to stem voter fraud would disenfranchise large numbers of Americans who might lack proper identification -- many of them elderly, poor or minority voters. In what has become a highly partisan legal and political fight, the justices wrestled with a balancing test of sorts to ensure both state and individual interests were addressed. Civil rights activists and the state Democratic Party complain Indiana's law is the most restrictive in the nation. "The real question is, does it disenfranchise anyone?"

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Indiana
KEYWORDS: photoid; scotus; testit2; voterfraud; voterid
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To: sweetliberty
Like you, SL, I don't need the stress of hosting the thread, but I am willing to assist whomever when I can.

Has any politician ever brought up the fact that it is almost impossible to cash a check without a photo ID? Did anyone ever buy a car battery at Wal-Mart? You must have a photo ID then also. The list could go on and on.

This claim of any manner of discrimination is nothing more than the usual democrat ploy to allow dead or illegals to vote...usually multiple times.

161 posted on 01/10/2008 2:23:52 PM PST by Budge
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To: hercuroc

How does she cash checks or use a credit card when they ask for ID?


162 posted on 01/10/2008 2:36:54 PM PST by Resolute Conservative
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To: TheLion

We already are a banana republic if you recall the 2004 governors election in Washington State


163 posted on 01/10/2008 2:43:21 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Ginsburge is against it.

I'm against Ginsburg.

164 posted on 01/10/2008 2:50:06 PM PST by Mad_Tom_Rackham (Elections have consequences.)
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To: hercuroc
What about a birth certificate?

Is a drivers license good enough? It only shows residency, not citizenship. Aren't permanent alien residents allowed to get a drivers license? If so, that still doesn't make them eligible to vote until they become a citizen. How do we show proof of that besides a US birth certificate or a US passport or citizenship documents?

-PJ

165 posted on 01/10/2008 2:50:20 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (Repeal the 17th amendment -- it's the "Fairness Doctrine" for Congress!)
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To: My_Name_is_a_Number

People who can’t afford to (or are physically unable to) drive a car can still get state IDs. This is ridiculous. Yes, you have to prove you are who you say you are to get one of those IDs, but if that requirement is too much of a burden, we’re doomed.


166 posted on 01/10/2008 3:01:09 PM PST by NinoFan
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To: NinoFan

Note that those IDs (at least in any state I’ve ever known) are just as good as DLs in terms of identification. You can use them to get a passport, cash checks, etc. The only thing those people can’t do is drive. It seems like a simple and reasonable system to have those same IDs be used for voting. Sheesh.


167 posted on 01/10/2008 3:03:58 PM PST by NinoFan
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To: Seaplaner

no , .. not off base , I also remember that TIDBIT

{{ but that was before I had “FlashDrives” , .. hand-me-downs from my son , LOL! }}


168 posted on 01/10/2008 3:29:37 PM PST by Dad yer funny (FoxNews is morphing , and not for the better ,... internal struggle? Its hard to watch)
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To: hercuroc
How does a person conduct ANY KIND OF COMMERCE in this country without a valid ID? I'm not buying the story of this poor old lady from Indiana.

How does she cash a check, for example?

She could have gone and got a plain old photo ID like I had to do when my drivers license expired (long story)

169 posted on 01/10/2008 3:37:43 PM PST by moondoggie
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To: My_Name_is_a_Number

I like the opening line in the article: “A conservative majority...”

how about, a Majority!


170 posted on 01/10/2008 4:00:07 PM PST by sappy
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To: Ymani Cricket
Of course your right, This will be magnified 10x if Republicans stay home this time. We must support the ticket (hold the nose if u must) I can’t imagine the Nation if they get control of everything
171 posted on 01/10/2008 4:10:02 PM PST by reefdiver (The sheriff of Nottingham collected taxes on behalf of the common good)
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To: reefdiver

The Eagle Forum of Arkansas supported Mike Huckabee for governor, and then after the election he basically pooped on all the conservatives who helped elect him. Thus most conservatives in Arkansas will never support his presidential run. The national Eagle Forum won’t have squat to do with the Huckster.


172 posted on 01/10/2008 4:49:41 PM PST by SatinDoll (Fredhead and proud of it!)
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To: My_Name_is_a_Number

Having to drive a voting booth disenfranchises people without cars and the disabled...who are they kidding?


173 posted on 01/10/2008 5:27:14 PM PST by Bob J
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To: Ymani Cricket

Well don’t ya think it’s about time ya took Grandma to the DMV and helped her get her state ID?


174 posted on 01/10/2008 6:51:55 PM PST by Roccus (..........................FOR RENT......................)
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To: MNnice

A lot of that was going on in the 2004 Election in Wisconsin. I was a poll watcher in a precinct in Kenosha and I can give you all kinds of examples of that happening.

If memory serves, Bush lost Wisconsin by 11,000 votes. If Bush had won Wisconsin, then he wouldn’t have needed Ohio.


175 posted on 01/10/2008 7:32:04 PM PST by guinnessman
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I’ll just go on record as saying that I’m not for it. No flames, please.


176 posted on 01/10/2008 9:16:23 PM PST by my_pointy_head_is_sharp (...dreams of a Utopia - a land where Libs do not exist...)
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To: My_Name_is_a_Number

It’s about damned time for this. Voter fraud has been rampant in this country for a long time.


177 posted on 01/10/2008 9:32:55 PM PST by SoldierDad (Proud Dad of a 2nd BCT 10th Mountain Soldier home after 15 months in the Triagle of death)
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To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp

Why are you not for it?


178 posted on 01/10/2008 9:51:59 PM PST by Repeal 16-17 (Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
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To: John Jorsett

If logic ruled, Liberals would vanish, even if the logic is as Godless as Ayn Rand’s logic....


179 posted on 01/10/2008 10:12:52 PM PST by The Spirit Of Allegiance (Public Employees: Honor Your Oaths! Defend the Constitution from Enemies--Foreign and Domestic!)
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To: My_Name_is_a_Number
A conservative majority of the Supreme Court appeared ready Wednesday to support an Indiana law requiring voters to show photo identification, despite concerns that it could deprive thousands of people of their right to vote.

No bias there, eh?

SNORT.

180 posted on 01/11/2008 5:41:21 AM PST by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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